<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
    <title></title>
    <style>

        span p
        {
            background-color: gray;
        }
        html p
        {
            background-color: red;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div>
        <span><p>RED</p></span>
    </div>
</body>
</html>